List of Accounts

  • favorite_count = sum of likes received for posts
  • retweet_count = sum of retweets received for posts
  • retweet_own_tweets_count = sum of retweets received for posts that were created by the bots
  • favorite_own_tweets_count = sum of likes received for posts that were created by the bots

Accounts by language

The classification of accounts by language rely on the following logic:

If 66% of the tweets or more are in a given language, the account is classified to predominantly tweet in that language.

Example:

this account https://twitter.com/AngieKayman tweets are 96.95% classified by Twitter as German so I set account_lang to german.

Here I only classify accounts as English, Indonesian, Dutch and German because only for those languages are there enough tweets (the rest are probably misclassifations on behalf of Twitter anyway). If none of the accounts have above 66% tweets in one language, I code them as mixed. All others are classified as other (again probably missclassifacations but this number is small).

account_lang n
indonesian 58
english 55
dutch 29
mixed 26
german 11
other 9

Number of Tweets

Total Number

## [1] 53369

Number of Tweets by language

lang n perc
en 16179 30.32
nl 13265 24.86
in 12800 23.98
de 6407 12.01
und 4177 7.83
tl 190 0.36
ro 120 0.22
ja 81 0.15
es 20 0.04
ca 19 0.04
da 17 0.03
ko 17 0.03
ht 11 0.02
it 11 0.02
fr 10 0.02
et 8 0.01
fi 7 0.01
pl 6 0.01
cy 4 0.01
hu 3 0.01
no 3 0.01
hi 2 0.00
ru 2 0.00
sv 2 0.00
tr 2 0.00
ar 1 0.00
eu 1 0.00
is 1 0.00
lt 1 0.00
lv 1 0.00
sl 1 0.00

Number of Tweets by location

37k tweets (86% of all tweets) have no location. The rest do have a specified tweet location.

location n perc
Papua 1762 21.57
Bekasi Barat, Indonesia 719 8.80
Raja Ampat 697 8.53
London, England 673 8.24
Teluk Bintuni 507 6.21
Hawaii 326 3.99
Birmingham 319 3.91
Brisbane 315 3.86
Australia 303 3.71
Amsterdam 286 3.50
Bojonegoro, Indonesia 253 3.10
London 246 3.01
Mojosari, Indonesia 199 2.44
Mataram, Indonesia 171 2.09
Semarang, Jawa Tengah 171 2.09
Papua Barat, Indonesia 166 2.03
Batu, Indonesia 150 1.84
Kupang, Kedah 141 1.73
Kota Makassar, Sulawesi Selata 135 1.65
Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tengg 127 1.55
Bali, Indonesia 126 1.54
Wamena 97 1.19
Biak 94 1.15
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 68 0.83
Kota Surabaya, Jawa Timur 42 0.51
Tanah Abang, Indonesia 34 0.42
Papua, Indonesia 23 0.28
Martapura, Indonesia 19 0.23

Number of Tweets by location (recoded by region)

location n perc
Indonesia 5633 68.96
London/Amsterdam/Birmingham 1592 19.49
Australia 618 7.57
Hawaii 326 3.99

Number of Tweets created by the Accounts (excluding retweets)

Total Number of Tweets created by the Accounts

## [1] 44462

By language

lang n perc
en 14992 33.72
nl 12317 27.70
in 7286 16.39
de 6397 14.39
und 3050 6.86
tl 148 0.33
ro 99 0.22
ja 80 0.18
da 17 0.04
ca 16 0.04
fr 10 0.02
es 9 0.02
et 7 0.02
fi 7 0.02
it 6 0.01
cy 4 0.01
pl 4 0.01
hu 3 0.01
sv 2 0.00
tr 2 0.00
eu 1 0.00
hi 1 0.00
is 1 0.00
lt 1 0.00
lv 1 0.00
sl 1 0.00

Number of Tweets by location

location n perc
Papua 1762 27.44
Raja Ampat 697 10.86
London, England 669 10.42
Teluk Bintuni 507 7.90
Brisbane 283 4.41
Hawaii 266 4.14
Australia 258 4.02
Birmingham 254 3.96
London 245 3.82
Amsterdam 231 3.60
Bekasi Barat, Indonesia 137 2.13
Mojosari, Indonesia 108 1.68
Batu, Indonesia 104 1.62
Kota Makassar, Sulawesi Selata 103 1.60
Mataram, Indonesia 103 1.60
Bali, Indonesia 100 1.56
Wamena 97 1.51
Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tengg 89 1.39
Kupang, Kedah 88 1.37
Amsterdam, The Netherlands 68 1.06
Biak 68 1.06
Bojonegoro, Indonesia 50 0.78
Papua Barat, Indonesia 48 0.75
Semarang, Jawa Tengah 43 0.67
Tanah Abang, Indonesia 18 0.28
Papua, Indonesia 13 0.20
Martapura, Indonesia 8 0.12
Kota Surabaya, Jawa Timur 4 0.06

Number of Tweets by location (recoded by region)

location n perc
Indonesia 4147 64.58
London/Amsterdam/Birmingham 1467 22.85
Australia 541 8.43
Hawaii 266 4.14

Number of Retweeted Tweets

Total Number of Retweeted Tweets

## [1] 8907

By language

lang n perc
in 5514 61.91
en 1187 13.33
und 1127 12.65
nl 948 10.64
tl 42 0.47
ro 21 0.24
ko 17 0.19
es 11 0.12
ht 11 0.12
de 10 0.11
it 5 0.06
ca 3 0.03
no 3 0.03
pl 2 0.02
ru 2 0.02
ar 1 0.01
et 1 0.01
hi 1 0.01
ja 1 0.01

Number of Tweets by location

location n perc
Bekasi Barat, Indonesia 582 33.30
Bojonegoro, Indonesia 203 11.61
Semarang, Jawa Tengah 128 7.32
Papua Barat, Indonesia 118 6.75
Mojosari, Indonesia 91 5.21
Mataram, Indonesia 68 3.89
Birmingham 65 3.72
Hawaii 60 3.43
Amsterdam 55 3.15
Kupang, Kedah 53 3.03
Batu, Indonesia 46 2.63
Australia 45 2.57
Konawe Selatan, Sulawesi Tengg 38 2.17
Kota Surabaya, Jawa Timur 38 2.17
Brisbane 32 1.83
Kota Makassar, Sulawesi Selata 32 1.83
Bali, Indonesia 26 1.49
Biak 26 1.49
Tanah Abang, Indonesia 16 0.92
Martapura, Indonesia 11 0.63
Papua, Indonesia 10 0.57
London, England 4 0.23
London 1 0.06

Number of Tweets by location (recoded by region)

location n perc
Indonesia 1486 85.01
London/Amsterdam/Birmingham 125 7.15
Australia 77 4.41
Hawaii 60 3.43

Overall stats

Number of Unique Accounts

## [1] 188

Total received likes

## [1] 22181

Total received retweets (only for posts created by bots)

## [1] 11450

Over time graphs

Number of Tweets over time

Earliest tweet was posted in 2014

Zoomed in

Let’s zoom in a bit. Looks like there is a clear spike in activity in mid June 2020. This overlaps with a lot of the accounts that were created on June 14th 2020.

Tweets by language over time

Tweets by location over time

Most common stats

Most commonly used hashtags

Most common mentions

Black bars show accounts that are not in the initial bot sample.

Most common retweeted accounts

Top 20s

Top 20 Most liked posts

Top 20 Most retweeted posts (posts created by bots)

When do they tweet?

Overall

By language

By location

Texts

There are 282 identical tweets that were posted by more than 8 accounts. Some texts repeat more often but the hashtags section after the text seems to often change slightly.

Networks

Nodes (dots) are colored in by language of the account. Seems like interactions and follows are not really dependent on what language the accounts post in.

Follower Network

Mentions Network

Retweet Network